(Cat? OR feline) AND NOT dog?
Cat? W/5 behavior
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Cat AND charact*

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Within a basic service delivery model where a client engages repeatedly within a short
period of time for a service that requires details of that service as requested via
questionnaire, often times details of those answers may change over time, yet many
other things remain constant. As a result it is useful to re-use past information while
allowing for changes. In addition, having a central document that retains descriptive
information and key categorical attributes about the client/project is often desired.
Finally there is a need to have item by item confirmation of agreement with any re-used
content and related signoff/history for such action.
This method leverages multiple concepts which results in dynamic updates and
exchange of data to allow for the quick re-use of past questionnaire answers, while also
providing a field level audit point with signoff/history, ability to update to more recent
information, storing of key attributes in a central project core document for future
reference and continued reuse.
Prior to the service engagement, a questionnaire is sent to the client to request
information required to prepare for and perform the service engagement. On the first
engagement the questionnaire has no known information about the client or proposed
engagement details. However, upon completion of the first questionnaire, the set of
attributes that would be considered relatively static are stored within a core project
document for that project/client. On subsequent engagement requests, the
questionnaire is then able to present the option to utilize past answers or modify and
update them. On completion of these subsequent questionnaires the results are
analyzed and compared to the core project document to determine if it requires
updating (only the most recently created questionnaire for the most recent engagement
causes the update). Possible attributes which could be utilized in this method are
customer name, unique identifiers, project/application name, contact information, other
categorization content, other details relevant to the engagement (size of entry being
worked), etc.
The incorporation of a single project core document then results in a parent-child
relationship between this entry and the many questionnaire entries related to it that
serve as the engagement reference (most likely also related to a specific engagement
record depending on test documentation system implementation). Because of this, it
becomes possible to extract other statistics and relationships from this project core
document which can be directly updated and stored as attribute values, rather than a
performance hitting query against the many existing questionnaires. For example, the
number of engagements performed in the past, the date of the most recent one and key
values extracted from the most recent questionnaire (client nam...